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Avalanche at Val-Cenis, France

by Jordan Yerman | April 16, 2009 at 07:24 am

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An avalanche struck in-bounds at Val-Cenis in France. The area crowded with schoolkids at the moment.

If my rather-unreliable French is to be trusted, nobody is reported injured or missing, which is great news.

More detail to follow.

Une grosse avalanche a traversé cet après-midi deux pistes de la station de ski de Val-Cenis (Savoie), en pleine période de vacances scolaires, faisant peut-être des victimes, a-t-on appris auprès des CRS de montagne de Modane.

(thanks for the tip, Johnny Summerton)

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Uwe Paschen

at 07:50 on April 16th, 2009

http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/france/faits-divers/0,,4383315,00-une-avalanche-balaie-deux-pistes-de-val-cenis-.html

Uwe Paschen

at 18:58 on April 17th, 2009

That is great news Johnny. I am so glad to read that. I used to Ski in that area, it is magnificent.

jessjessjess (not verified)

at 13:30 on April 18th, 2009

Me and four friends were on the mountain at the time but (luckily) almost at the bottom as they were progressively closing all the lifts. We heard a siren go off and then a few minutes later we heard a huge thunder-like rumble..... Very scary! It's amazing that nobody was hurt. What my friends and I thought was really nice was that our hotel staff came to every room that evening to check that everyone was accounted for.